Text-to-Spech åäö? hmm?

[Santtu2000]

if I write something like this,
audio.say("äääööö")
my pys60 won't say anything?

How in hek I make skript that speak
proper finnish?

Please Help, im stuck!

[gaba88]

if I write something like this,
audio.say("äääööö")
my pys60 won't say anything?

How in hek I make skript that speak
proper finnish?

Please Help, im stuck!

hi santtu2000
first of all welcome to the wonderful python dibo.
the first question i will ask u which phone u r using.
and make it clear that audio.say function works only for s603rd edition.

[kandyfloss]

if I write something like this,
audio.say("äääööö")
my pys60 won't say anything?

How in hek I make skript that speak
proper finnish?

Please Help, im stuck!

Hi Santtu2000,

The audio engine uses the Language that is set in the device. If this is English, it read the text provided in audio.say in english.
So you can try to change the device language to Finnish and then try the command line (audio.say)

[nokia_e70]

if I write something like this,
audio.say("äääööö")
my pys60 won't say anything?

How in hek I make skript that speak
proper finnish?

Yes, well make sure the language settings are ok, and that the telephone is actually capable of speaking the language (feed it with some english text - if it doesn't sound like english then it probably isn't - so far so good).

Secondly, make sure that you know in what encoding does the function (audio.say) expect its input, and that you feed it with a properly encoded "äääööö" (these are special characters after all).

[Santtu2000]

First Thanks for help,
I'm using n80 and the language is set to finnish.
It talks finnish but when it comes to letter ä or ö
the letter will be skipped.

Are you tested this with your phones?

Thanks
Santtu2000

[gaba88]

First Thanks for help,
I'm using n80 and the language is set to finnish.
It talks finnish but when it comes to letter ä or ö
the letter will be skipped.

Are you tested this with your phones?

Thanks
Santtu2000

hi santtu2000
plz write only a instead of ä and o instead of ö
and check then
thanx

[JOM]

plz write only a instead of ä and o instead of ö

That might work in Finglish, but not in Real Life.
For example "Mikä Hakkinen? Mika Häkkinen!"

My guess is that text-to-speech is not able to speak Finnish.

Cheers,

--jouni

[Santtu2000]

Thanks again,

Is this a bug in pys60 or something?
where should it be notified?

Im writing a little program for visual impaired people and if finnish not spoken properly, ill conna get serious laffs, heh!

thanks
Santtu2000

[Symbian_Neil]

Thanks again,

Is this a bug in pys60 or something?
where should it be notified?

Im writing a little program for visual impaired people and if finnish not spoken properly, ill conna get serious laffs, heh!

thanks
Santtu2000

Well the native(?) text-speech fails to translate correctly the Suomi(finnish Language) sounds like 'J', 'Y', etc. I am not sure if changing the language on device has any effect on this...thats one of the things you could check on.

[gaba88]

Thanks again,

Is this a bug in pys60 or something?
where should it be notified?

Im writing a little program for visual impaired people and if finnish not spoken properly, ill conna get serious laffs, heh!

thanks
Santtu2000

hi santtu2000
yes we can say that this is a bug. but the bug i think is on the operating system side. hope the moderators are reading this and will comment on this.
thanx

[nokia_e70]

Well the native(?) text-speech fails to translate correctly the Suomi(finnish Language) sounds like 'J', 'Y', etc. I am not sure if changing the language on device has any effect on this...thats one of the things you could check on.

Don't know about Suomi, what buffles me though is the encoding of the string - I've read somewhere that all Symbian is unicode, so why does audio.say expect ASCII ? No matter if the core engine is able to speak Suomi or not, I express my concern again: in what encoding should the input string be (and why not unicode) ?

[gaba88]

Don't know about Suomi, what buffles me though is the encoding of the string - I've read somewhere that all Symbian is unicode, so why does audio.say expect ASCII ? No matter if the core engine is able to speak Suomi or not, I express my concern again: in what encoding should the input string be (and why not unicode) ?

hi nokia_e70
u r correct that the everything in symbian in unicode and i believe that the input is in unicode be it any language the device should speak correctly nd efficiently.

thanx

[kandyfloss]

hi nokia_e70
u r correct that the everything in symbian in unicode and i believe that the input is in unicode be it any language the device should speak correctly nd efficiently.

thanx

Jokes apart, strings in audio.say doesn't have to be compulsorily in unicode.
I think it is not able to pronounce some words correctly and so its not the format (unicode or ASCII) that matters.

[bogdan.galiceanu]

Don't know about Suomi, what buffles me though is the encoding of the string - I've read somewhere that all Symbian is unicode, so why does audio.say expect ASCII ? No matter if the core engine is able to speak Suomi or not, I express my concern again: in what encoding should the input string be (and why not unicode) ?

The official PyS60 documentation doesn't say that the string has to be unicode:

The following method is available in the audio module:

say(text, prefix=audio.TTS_PREFIX)
Passes the text to the device text-to-speech engine. The default prefix is the text-to-speech prefix "(tts)".

And both normal strings and unicode ones work:

import audio

audio.say('Discussion')
#Is apparently the same as
audio.say(u'Discussion')

[kandyfloss]

The official PyS60 documentation doesn't say that the string has to be unicode:


And both normal strings and unicode ones work:

import audio

audio.say('Discussion')
#Is apparently the same as
audio.say(u'Discussion')

Thanks Bogdan for reffering to the documentation, I hope this will be the final word on this discussion thread.